Example sentences of "we 'd be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 2 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 3 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 4 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 5 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 6 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’ |
| 8 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |